Drag for wagons.



No. 776,510. I PATENTED DEC. 6, 1904. J. GRABER & G. P. KAHLER. DRAG FOR WAGONS.

APPLICATION FILED MAIL i, 1904.

N0 MODEL.

WITNESSES INVENTURE II ITE STATES Patented December 6, 1904.

PATENT rrrcn.

JACOB GRA BER, OF DELEVAN, AND GOTTLIEB P. KAI-ILER, OF ARMINGTON, ILLINOIS.

DRAG FOR WAGONS- SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N0. 776,510, dated December 6, 1904.

Application filed March 4, 1904.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, J ACOB GRABER, residing at Delevan, and Go'rrLIEB P. KAI-Inna, residing at Armington, in the county of Tazewell and State of Illinois, citizens of the United States, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Drags for Wagons; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention pertains to a drag for vehicles, and has for its object to provide a device for carrying the wheel of the vehicle without injury thereto.

A further object is to provide an implement for use on wheels of vehicles that will totally prevent side-slipping of said vehicle.

It is well known that often in looking the wheel by means of a chain, as in common practice,the vehicle, if loaded and on a slippery hill, will swing around across the road and often result in tipping over. Thus heretofore a dangerous practice has been in vogue, besides resulting in property loss. It is the intention of our invention to do away with all trouble of this character, and to that end we provide the device about to be described, and shown in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a side view of our drag. Fig. 2 is an end view thereof. Fig. 3 is a sectional view thereof on line X X, Fig. 1. Fig. A is a view of a front and a rear wheel of a wagon, showing our device under the rear wheel and secured, as by a chain, to the front axle.

The body of the drag consists of a piece of channel-iron A, one side being a little higher than the other, as shown. A second piece, B, consists of a heavy body C, having at about the middle length thereof at each side a sharp downward projection D. The body A is secured to. thelast-named portion O by means of screws E or their equivalents. In the drawings we use screws which are provided with the usual nuts F, the heads of said screws being let into the body A by countersinking, as shown in broken lines in Fig. l and in full lines in Fig. 3. At one side of the portion A is secured an eye G, while at the opposite side, 1 of Serial No. 196,638. (No model.)

which, as before stated, is higher, are notches H, which angle downward, as shown, their upper ends meeting at the top edge.

Attached to the eye G is a cable I, the other end of which carries a ring J. A chain K is attached to the front axle, and a hook at its other end engages the ring J mentioned. The chain and cable are of such a length that when the device is placed in position for use it is immediately beneath the axle of the wheel on which it is placed.

In Figs. 2 and 3 the folly of the wheel is shown in place within the body A, with the cable I carried across it from the eye G to the notches H. In placing the drag in position it is passed through the wheel from the inside and then upon the felly, so that the cable will be carried across the felly, after which it can be slipped into one of the notches H, as shown in broken lines in Fig. l and in Fig. 4. Said cable will then lie across the felly, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3. This will firmly secure the device to the wheel, and the chain and cable will tighten by the movement of the wagon and there will be no possible chance of the device becoming detached. The downward extensions D will prevent the wagon slipping sidewise, and no matter how slippery the road may be said extensions will sinkthereinto and hold the wagon back.

When worn, the device may be reversed, so as to present the opposite edges of the extensions, so that not until they are nearly worn off is the device useless. When the device is useless from the above cause, the portion B may be removed and a new one substituted in a moment or two.

It is our desire to have a drag composed of two sections, whereby one of them may be retained, while the other is changeable at will when worn out, all of which will be clearly understood. We are aware of several devices having the same end in View; but we desire to claim our particular construction herein shown.

Having thus described our invention, we claim- A drag device to be placed beneath the wheel a wagon comprising a section of channeliron in which the wheel is adapted to seat, the same being substantially flat on its under surface and imperforate except for a hole in the bottom thereof near each end to receive screws which remain in a stationary position when located except for the purposes described, screws adapted to enter the holes, a separate detachable member secured to the channeliron by the said screws, a sharpened depending cutting-lugformed on the bottom of the detachable member at each edge thereof, said lugs being located substantially in the middle of the said member and much shorter than that member, substantially as shown, an eye JACOB GRABER. GOTTLIEB P. KAHLER.

Witnesses:

MAE DAVIS, L. M. THURLOW. 

